Heuchera - Coralbells Hosta Cotinus Salvia Rose in Ohio

Heuchera Palace Purple with some of my Hosta collection. I love the Heuchera - Coralbells, the foliage is so lovely and for me evergreen. This is one of those plants like Hosta that I grow for the foliage rather than the blooms.

Four hours of watering with the sprinkler around the yard. This drought is awful. Didn't do much and am back hand watering each plant when needed. The Echinacea and Daisies in the right bed are partly in bloom now.

Cotinus Golden Spirit with numerous Heuchera planted around it. Love the bright gold on this. You notice it as soon as you look out in the yard. I believe it will become a little more towards a yellow green in the summer, but it's one that I love so far.

Rose Apricot Drift with Sedum Autumn Joy and Sedum Matrona on each side of it. This Rose is such a pretty little guy and loaded with blooms

Salvia Sensation Rose, Salvia Snow Hill and Salvia Sensation Blue. I love this grouping together with the girl with Yorkie statue. My Salvia May Night didn't survive the Winter which I had for probably 5 years. I was intending to divide it this year but it apparently had other ideas.

The Spirea Magic Carpet is blooming, flanked by Heuchera Beaujolais and Heucherella Sweet Tea.

I've had several large Butterflies but never with camera in hand, so snapped this one of the little white on a different Salvia Sensation Rose.

Viburnum Autumn Jazz with Clematis growing through it. My other Clematis may have bit the dust. I keep hoping it will start growing. Flanked by Variegated Solomon's Seal and Japanese Painted Ferns. I've left plenty of room here for this shrub to get to it's expected size. I predict it will do quite a bit of growing this year. Viburnum Autumn Jazz is one that grows vase shaped.

Let's close with this cute little guy, just a youngster yet. I was out back about 1 AM and saw this little guy. Ran and grabbed a camera and flashlight. It was pitch black but I shined the light on him and got the photo. He just sat there and posed.

Hope your gardening is going well.

Iris Heather Heath Lavender and Heuchera Zone 6

Spring is finally here to stay now and the flowers are blooming for the season. This is the time for Iris to show their faces.

The Heather and Heath Hill. Although I've made a few changes to this in the last weeks I haven't gotten a current photo, this one was a couple weeks ago. I ordered more Heather from HeathsandHeathers.com

The front side that I changed last year. The only thing here that is not evergreen are the Iris and a small grouping of Hyacinth. The majority of the rest is Heuchera, Lavender and I just this last couple weeks added another ground cover, which there will be two to help fill up the space to the path. I figure by season's end this should be pretty much filled in. The closer side of the path is mainly groundcover waiting to fill in. Can't do much else there since it floods there from the neighbors.

Iris So Grand on left and Iris Pagan Dance on right. I bought Pagan Dance for my beautiful Yorkshire Terrier Pagan. I love these two together. All my other Iris back here were divided last year and didn't bloom this year. I'm hoping they'll do ok next year or I will be forced to move them out of this dry area.

Iris Study In Black and Iris Dusky Challenger. Really like both of these, but Dusky Challenger is such a beautiful deep purple that it really catches your eye.

Iris Stepping Out which is a beautiful bi-color bloom and Iris Cemetery is vintage.

The Ninebarks with Center Glow on left coming into bloom and the other 2 Diablo in bloom. Waiting for everything else to come in to bloom here. Hoping this rain continues that we've had, nice amounts of it without any yard flooding so far, but I'm sure I'm hoping for too much.

Malus Purple Prince Picea abies Reflexa Freeze Damage Hosta

Gardening in recent years has become a battle between mother nature and those gardeners dedicated enough not to give up. Between droughts, summer weather during Winter which enabled most of our plants to leaf out and mother nature dared to tease us and take it back. My garden has been hit a lot, fortunately not everything but with some things only time will tell.

Malus Purple Prince - Crabapple had a beautiful blooming season. Very early as with everything else, but I got to see a couple weeks of the beautiful flowers before a hard freeze took out so much here in this area as well as across the country.

The Peony tree blooms earlier than my regular Peony and has a couple blooms started. Since the freeze hit so hard here, I am not sure if these will open or not.

Just a few of my Hosta coming up here, way too early. Quite a number of my Hosta have been severly affected by the freeze. I haven't decided if I will cut them to the ground and let them completely leaf out again or just cut off the freeze damaged leaves. Since it's either all of the Hosta affected or the greatest part of them, I probably will cut the affected ones completely down. Several of these that were up this much were some of the affected ones.

This Bloomerang Lilac had just started opening her blooms so am not sure if they will finish or not. I hope it didn't hurt it for any reblooming either.

Picea abies Reflexa. This is a weeper so the height is totally controlled to how tall I want it. Since electric lines are above, I couldn't have anything really tall. Well all I can say is that I am glad a lot still hadn't bloomed or leafed out and that I have some conifers to look at. That Solomon's Seal coming up on each side of the Viburnum in back with a Painted Fern in front of those. The Ferns were affected by the freeze. I hope things improve here and around the country for this gardening season.